Bakersfield, California: Fully one of every 50 PG&E customers care enough about alleged global warming to fork over $5 per month!
Feb. 13--As part of its ClimateSmart program, Pacific Gas and Electric is seeking proposals from local dairies, landfill operators, governments and educational campuses for projects that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
To qualify, a project must reduce emissions through methane capture at a dairy or landfill, or through tree planting. If selected, PG&E will enter into a contract to pay for each ton of emissions the project eliminates from the atmosphere.
Funding for the projects comes from ClimateSmart customers who choose to pay an additional fee on their monthly bill to offset the global warming impacts caused by their power consumption.
A typical household pays $5 a month. One hundred percent of the fee goes to carbon-reduction projects.
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More than 30,000 PG&E customers have enrolled in ClimateSmart since it started in June 2007. Bakersfield ranks among the Top 10 cities for customer enrollment, with 2.1 percent of customers opting in. Along with residential customers, participants include the city of Taft and the Greater Bakersfield Chamber of Commerce.
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2 comments:
Tom,
Where did you find your information about the number of PG&E customers that are signed up for the program?
Thanks.
It's in the article (linked at the top of this post).
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